Thursday, August 7, 2008

Beep, Big Pop, Bugah

It's not even 3:00 in the afternoon, and I already have tons of stories for you! I'll start from the beginning ...

This morning we were on the phone with Aunt Kissy when Allen, Snake, and Cat all tackled me. Suddenly Kiss hears a muffled Allegra saying "hold on a minute ... Allen I can't breathe." It was quiet amusing. No need to worry ... I wrestled, Snake, Cat, and Allen off me and I'm OK.

We had a morning of errands to run, so I asked Allen what he wanted to take with him in the car. Big mistake ... we left with milk, puffs and cookies, cat, snake, car (all stuffed animals), and a truck. And he wanted me to "care" (carry) him. We stopped briefly at the shop and saw Nana ... when she said "Bye," Allen said "Bye bye Nana. See you soon!" So cute ...

Our first stop was the ATM to deposit a check. Everytime the machine beeped, I heard "beeep" from the back seat. Now he's an ATM impersonator ... Next stop was the UPS Store to ship some stuff to Aunt Kissy. There was a toy box in the store with trucks ... which Allen immediately honed in on and took out. He rifled through those toys and found all three trucks in there. His favorite was a truck with Ernie on it. He played and played so well for the five minutes or so that we were in there. When I was finished, I said, "Let's put the trucks back since they're not ours." It didn't go so well ... major meltdown in the middle of the store ... we left with him crying "Errrrnieee Truuuuck". Pleasant ...

After the meltdown he fell asleep ... and stayed asleep for the next stop to the doctor's office to pick up some prescriptions. He let me pick him up and put his head right back down on my shoulder and slept ... slept through getting him back into the car seat and everything. "Good," I thought, "Maybe he'll sleep in my arm while I get my bloodwork done at the other doctor's office." After two years with him, I should really know better ... as soon as we arrive at the next doctor's office his eyes pop open and he's ready to play.

Upstairs in the waiting room, Allen immediately pulls out the resident Tazmanian Devil and boat and throws them around the room. Then, he looks at the fish briefly and is ready to go back out to the "egatuh" (elevator). Fortunately he didn't put up too much of a fight when we got called back. It helped that the phlebotomist is beautiful (Allen loves pretty girls), and that they hand out lollipops to the toddlers so Moms can have some peace.

With a blue and white swirled "big pop" (lollipop) in his hand/mouth, he was pretty happy for the duration of my appointment. One minute he's neat and clean, and the next he's covered in blue and sticky mess. I wish I had my camera so I could have shown you the blue mustache, blue lips, and blue tongue.

On the way home, we stopped at Chick-Fil-A. I asked him if he wanted nuggets. Negative headshake ... so I asked him if he wanted a "chicken burger" and his eyes lit up, and he said "chicken bugah!" We took everything home to eat (he cried the whole way home for his "bugah") and once he discovered the mayonnaise that Daddy was putting on his sandwich, he wanted some for his own. He sat there, happy as can be, dipping his "bugah" in mayo and licking it off. He ended up with a mayonnaise mustache ...